[WBEL-users] Building My own Updates.

[NICK]

Hi,

There's lots of discussions about updates and how timely their turn around is.

A common answer is: "Build your own from source", but I'm struggling
to find a document describing how to do this. .. I've seen john's "how
to" , but isn't that for if you want to re-create the installation
medium ?

I've had a think about what I need to do......

(0) Install WBEL on a server, tick all the development tool's boxes in
the installatin gui.
(1) wget ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/*
(2) Set up a RPM build directory like so {
http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/rpmbuild/ ... please excuse the
fedora reference ;-)  }
(3) rpm -ivh all of the foo.src.rpm get by wget
(4) rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/*.spec
(5) Learn about setting up a yum repo ;-) to point /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to
(6) cron wget ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/
[NOTE not *]
(7) cron md5sum the index.html generated by 6
(8) if md5sum changes.....get everything? and rebuild. (wget ~/SRPMS/*
& rpm ivh & rpmbuild)

Is this the right thing to be doing ? Does anyone have any
documentation on what I should do ?

Cheers
Nick